Dangerous GOP Bill Wildly Distorts Abortion Care

“The passage of the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act is yet another attempt by my Republican colleagues to undermine the sacred relationship between a woman and her doctor. Much like the recently debunked videos attacking Planned Parenthood, this dangerous piece of legislation does nothing more than criminalize doctors, wildly distort abortion care, and interfere in the practice of medicine.

“Supporters of this extreme bill claim they care about enhancing women’s health, but nothing could be further from reality. The truth is, we could significantly improve health outcomes for women and their children by fully funding Title X – a vital federal program that provides comprehensive family planning and related preventive health services – but conservatives in the House have no interest in doing so.

“Let’s expose this bill for what it really is: a partisan stunt. I can only hope that one day, Republicans will attack poverty with the same fervor used in their ongoing campaign to deny women access to safe and legal abortions. I call on my Senate colleagues to vote down this malicious legislation.”

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

@Will – Those allegations about Planned Parenthood are blatantly false. Your Margaret Sanger quote is both incorrect and taken out of context. And it is absolutely not true that 80% of PP clinics are in black neighborhoods. In fact, only a little more than 1 in 8 are located in neighborhoods that are at least 25% African-American. If you expand that list to include all abortion providers (not just PP), still approximately 60% are located in majority-white neighborhoods, with fewer than 10% in majority-black neighborhoods.